CORNIEST sample use of all time?

1. Eminem ft. Lil Wayne - "No Love"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_72GooInOk

2. T.I. ft. Rihanna - "Live Your Life"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=koVHN6eO4Xg

I'll Be Missing You.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1nbvplgElw

^ probably winner

no sample tho :(

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7VLvjkyQ30

YES

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovbPtM27eNQ

The works of Nitty:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDx17I_2kkw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvS32emi_XI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBI3lc18k8Q

i thought Whatcha Say was actually kind of decent sample use

i would maybe agree with that if it wasn't appropriating a punchline from a digital short

possibly without even knowing it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5j4fH4iqNqA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4Fcb7ToaoA

i would maybe agree with that if it wasn't appropriating a punchline from a digital short

― gonjasufi smacker (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, June 8, 2010 3:01 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

ugh, i always thought he just nicked an indie song, you just ruined it for me u_u

oh man, until the chorus I thought that Nitty break was CCR instead of Archies and I was gonna tear into you

http://www.emusic.com/album/Various-Artists-B-Boy-Records-The-Masterworks-MP3-Download/11629045.html

Tall Dark & Handsome - "When Money On The Mix"

gr8 thread

That Professor Green person.....is he for real? What in the world.......

I mean I know it's oftentimes fun to have an opinion and tell everyone how much their music is terrible and etc., but I rarely do it because I realize there must be SOMETHING redeeming for so many people to like it.

That being said: what the fuck, are these a joke? Like, everyone is always saying "no, THIS is the worst, IT'S SO BAD! WE'VE HIT ROCK BOTTOM!", but when you look back, things like Soulja Boy Tell 'Em are just painfully uninspired and mediocre. This stuff ("No Love", "Live Your Life", "Sugar") is actually embarrassing; what are these people hearing when they're tapping culturally-shunned "dorky" music and attempting to reappropriate it into the realm of integrity or thoughtfulness? And that's not to say the songs that are being sampled are bad BECAUSE they're dorky, but rather that they're dorky because not only are they too uninspired and mediocre, but also dated. And then being used as some sort of reference point---why??????

this thread needs a poll. every time I think I've reached rock bottom, I click on another one and... jeeze.

i wonder what rock bottom would be? Barbie Girl?

actually the only thing possibly worse than TI doing Numa Numa would be someone flipping Chocolate Rain

or the Friends theme song

i'm shocked "barbie girl" hasn't already happened

this stuff accounts for a horribly large percentage of "urban" stuff that charts, at some point in the past few years people realised that a recognisable, unsubtle, super-cheesy sample will sell by the bucketload - who to, i don't like to think - and since then it's pretty much been a race to the bottom

imo rihanna singing the numa numa melody was fly, they flipped it and made it so pop it didn't really matter where it was from

like probably the only person involved in the making of that song who knew about the numa dance was just blaze, and i imagine him just having fun and laughing his ass off while making it

man the scare quotes on "urban" are like whoa dude

imo rihanna singing the numa numa melody was fly, they flipped it and made it so pop it didn't really matter where it was from

― some dude, Tuesday, June 8, 2010 3:31 PM (8 minutes ago)

OTM

I'm less appalled by "Live Your Life" than most of this stuff but maybe just desensitized thru repeated exposure? I guess I'll check back w/ this thread in a year or so to see whether "Young Forever" still makes my skin crawl, and we'll have our answer.

"Whatcha Say" is great sample use, I agree with Whiney, and so is "Live Your Life," if only because it's just Blaze sampling fucking "Dragostea Din Tei."

Blaze isn't nearly as successful with "No Love." It's just too corny of a sample, and the flip is still a little obvious. It almost works, though.

Also, some dude, the original song was already pop, so how exactly did Rihanna flip it into pop? I think it's great, I just don't understand your statement.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wmq_DA_TH0M

Sort of love how unorganic the chorus is, and how they didn't bother to add anything to the original Heart song.

That beat is pretty much exactly the same as Weezy's "Something You Forgot," which is an awesome song. It literally could be the same beat. I actually like the beat, either way.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Tk1n6kukNk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEdvXM45nIY

holy fuck that is awful

ok what the fuck is that???

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8Y9-JlSRXw

plastic cups don't "clink", hope these Down With Webster kids aren't counting on 'foley artists' as their back-up career plan

still shocked DWW didn't blow up

Timbaland says: "That group is the most amazing and creative, innovative group that’s going to come out in 2010."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Down_With_Webster

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsO6ZnUZI0g

since "Sugar" is here, might as well post "Right Round" which is almost as bad if not worse:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFrjp4IPXSY

I thought we'd hit rock bottom with Nitty but Jesus fuck, who are these Down With Webster people?

are there any ringtone dudes willing to rep for "Right Round" because if so, lol

dude

I may be one of ILX's biggest defenders of Dead Or Alive and Eiffel 65 btw. Possibly the only defender of Eiffel 65.

i wasn't around last year but the flo-rida is horrible i can't see any autogoon in good standing having something good to say for it.

I actually can't imagine anything dorkier than a rapper using a sample of the Friends theme song.

that party in the Down With Webster video looks fun; not sure why they're being such pricks about it

Some dude otm re: "Live Your Life" also "Changes" is superclassic (altho both admitedly colored by the fact I heard both before the sampled songs).

I liked this awesome Flo Rida track called "Ghetto Techno" that I heard before "Low" hit and then wasn't even on his album, but that's it, pretty much. Most of his hits have been fun radio jams the first dozen times I heard them but kind of intolerable afterwards.

rev, iirc you gave either/both of "sugar" and "right round" good reviews on the jukebox?

first flo rida thing i ever heard was also an awesome track that didn't end up on the album called "birthday". will also rep for "low" and "in the ayer" but he's been reprehensible since he discovered eurocheese samples.

Didn't review "Right Round". Said this about "Sugar":

I have no idea whether or when this will start to get on my nerves, but what occurs to me in the meantime is that the great thing about Flo is how completely unabashed of a sellout he is. He makes no bones of his pop-ness, because it ain’t no thang to him. I get the impression that the T.I.s of the world at least feel an appropriate measure of pious embarassment when attempting to pull off shit like this.
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As it turned out, "whether" was "yes" and "when" was "soon".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4qZec7B6oU

That "Tiny Dancer" sample is epic lex you are so wrong

That beat is pretty much exactly the same as Weezy's "Something You Forgot," which is an awesome song. It literally could be the same beat. I actually like the beat, either way.

someone explain to rennavate how mixtapes work

the bruce hornsby sample in "Changes" is one of the few samples of totally corny sample choice actually turning out totally dope

see also

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuhaFdBuwp4

Also, some dude, the original song was already pop, so how exactly did Rihanna flip it into pop? I think it's great, I just don't understand your statement.

― rennavate, Tuesday, June 8, 2010 4:58 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

well, i should say U.S. pop, before she flipped it it wasn't going to be popular in this country as anything but a comedy internet meme

another totally dope corny sample:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prVRBYLblu0

nice and smooth are the reigning fucking kings of turning corny samples into dope ish

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLQlYwIIKDs

Well on the topic of dope songs with corny samples:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0irL1M15DH8

i dunno, i don't think schoolhouse rock was ever corny!

dope song tho

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wW-oJJMi3Uk&feature=related

oh fucking YES

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KUDK9RSXQU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Sbz7MLKomo

OK, my friends and I fucking LOVE that Crystal Waters song.

what's the sample in Hip Hop Junkies?

This:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-B0WCBz2mg

ah, never actually heard that before I guess

is p dope bubblegum even without N&S

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOZWvpBAtTA

get the fuck

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xc9srgIlGh8

Cam'ron using the Night Court theme for 'Horse and Carriage Remix'. I never thought that Dan Fielding and Harry Stone were so gangsta.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFmdZ7ScT78

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8y_VFGrGnCE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48pk--3FvCQ

Night Court theme is dope and not at all corny

Price Is Right theme is goofy but not corny

Roz could throw down

xpost you have liberal definitions of corny dawg

i'm not an expert on corny, byt pretty sure in hip-hop terms something with a funky bassline vs. sappy hallmark sentiment and retarded chillwave lolstalgia facebook meme are two completely incomparable

things

I literally couldnt belive my ears when I first heard that wiz kalifa tune with the alice deejay sample. i dont even want to source it on youtube as it would involve hearing it again.

this thread is pretty bad. high rmde possibilities

songs with samples that risk corniness but are dope would be better

there's a whole middle section of this thread about Nice & Smooth, 2Pac and Brand Nubian songs that turn corny samples into dope shit

i know?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucYDhOV3WqY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9j4acRK16g

Kanye West sampling Daft Punk!

I literally couldnt belive my ears when I first heard that wiz kalifa tune with the alice deejay sample. i dont even want to source it on youtube as it would involve hearing it again.

― straightola, Sunday, January 23, 2011 10:49 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

fyi this is a classic track

OMG @ that MC Hammer video. Wow

Slaughterhouse ft. Cee Lo - "My Life"

http://soundcloud.com/igamusic/slaughterhouse-my-life-ft/s-y8UTe

Agreed, no one should ever sample Cee Lo, dude is off the chain corny.